Question: Will there be a fourth season of Mr. Mercedes? The story is not finished, even though there were only three books. I’m just now watching the third season and understand it won’t make it to End of Watch. I can’t find any news since Audience Network died. —Rebecca
Matt Roush: At first glance, it appeared that the future of Mr. Mercedes went the way of DirecTV’s defunct Audience Network: nowhere. But when Peacock picked up the series, exposing it to a potentially larger streaming audience, there has been renewed speculation that a fourth season may be possible after all. There’s nothing beyond that for now, as far as I know, so I wouldn’t get too excited.
Question: I have been curious if Scott Bakula really plays the piano on NCIS: New Orleans? —Cindy
Matt Roush: Yes, that’s him tinkling those 88 keys. It may not be as well known to fans of his action series that before TV stardom, Scott Bakula had a career in musical theater, including a Tony nomination for Romance/Romance and also appearing at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s cult musical Anything Can Whistle. (I saw him in both, and even remember him during my Midwest college days at Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park in a production of The Baker’s Wife.)
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